heartburn, n.
(ˈhɑːtbɜːn)
Also 3 herte-bren.
[f. heart n. + burn n.3 Sense 2 translates Gr. καρδιαλγία in Galen: cf. heart n. 4.]
† 1. Burning of heart; fire of passion. rare.
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 4054 Ðe ȝinge wimmen of ðin lond..ðe cumen brewen herte-bren. |
2. An uneasy burning sensation in the lower part of the chest, due to putrefactive fermentation of the food in the stomach; cardialgy.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. cxxxvi. 414 Small stonecrop..is good for the hart-burne. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 142 It is of singular force against the heart-burne. 1710–11 Swift Lett. (1767) III. 105 Congreve's nasty white wine has given me the heart-burn. 1789 W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 419, I have frequently known the heart-burn cured..by chewing green tea. 1880 Beale Slight Ailm. 93 Chalk or magnesia is taken for the relief of the Heartburn. |
3. Rankling jealousy, discontent, or enmity; = heart-burning n. 1.
| 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ii. (1626) 42 Faire Herse's happy state such heart-burne breeds In her black bosom. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. 78 Not without a little of the heart-burn. 1862 H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon II. 253 Was so poor a triumph worth the exchange to an existence of struggle, and heartburn, and unrest? |